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Show i Reviewing The Top Garfield County News Stories Of 1995 March The Valley High Buffaloes scored on a driving layup by senior Tony Baird with three seconds remaining re-maining March 4 at the Centrum in Cedar City to win the Boys 1A State Basketball Championship over Enterprise. In a rematch of the Region 15 final, the Wolves were overcome by a never-say-die bunch from the Valley. In other games, Panguitch came back from being knocked off for the second time in a week by Enterprise in the semi-finals to win 53-47 over Intermountain Christian for third place. The Bobcats played a little sluggishly after their March 3 defeat, de-feat, but came back to play a fine fourth quarter. Garfield County Attorney Wallace Lee announced March 7 that, with Garfield County Sheriff Than Cooper in agreement, investigation investi-gation into the shooting death of Sherilyn Piquet would be conducted by the office of the Salt Lake County District Attorney to avoid any conflict of interest Investigators from the Salt Lake County District Attorney's office of-fice were in Escalante where they began interviewing witnesses in connection with the shooting death. No charges had been filed in the month since the shooting took place. Garfield County Sheriff Than Cooper had responded to the scene and conducted the initial investigation. in-vestigation. Radio dispatch and telephone tapes and transcripts were among evidence turned over to the Salt Lake County district attorney's office. Escalante's five-member city council unanimously supported Mayor Wade Barney in the mayor's decision March 10 to keep Escalante Police Chief Kent Robinson on duty pending disposition disposi-tion of four felony and four misdemeanor misde-meanor charges against him. The crimes were alleged to have occurred while Robinson was a member of a drug task force based in Kanab. Peg Bagnell was selected by the Garfied County Commission as director di-rector for the Panguitch Senior Citizen Center after long-time director direc-tor Faye Worthen retired. (To Be Continued Next Week) |